Woodentops search/destroy/whatevertheheck

Tri-annual reminder how great this band is/was.

Only now learned that Scott Litt produced Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway. I don't go back to it as often as Giant.

Good interview w/ Rolo here:
https://palebloomsandbeyond.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/the-woodentops-rolo-mcginty-interview/

There was a cool interview with him in a recent issue of Electronic Sound. It's not online as far as I can see. It's about the details of recording the livehypnobeat album and particularly Why Why Why which I now learned is a Balaeric classic.

i got the vinyl comp Well Well Well at the time and they were so hyper electric and at times cathartic feeling, it was an amazing intro for me. when giant dropped, i liked it a lot, but the urgency wasn't quite so present. my tastes didn't even have me get to wooden foot cops by then. i had no idea they had a 2014 release, i'm about to listen out of curiosity.

I don't know what the hell "Umeboshi Plum" is (off the box set) but it's awesome, it's like Balearic post-punk or something.

(re: Why Why Why)

The version of the song that became a hit in Ibiza was taken from the concert recording Live Hypnobeat Live. Recorded at The Palace Theatre, Los Angeles in 1986. Do you have any particular memories of that gig? I heard a story that the band had taken Ecstasy during the performance. Is this true? Or a Balearic myth?

No, it`s not Balearic myth. It was our first time, so it was a stand out night for us and we pretty much forgot we were recording live – for the KROQ radio station – and really went for it. At the time we had no reason to think we were recording a live album. I remember much about the show. The bizarre sight of Donny Osmond and a camera crew wading through the crowd. Donny was having a 60 Minutes documentary filmed about him. Being on the same label as us, he could get free tickets to any hot show in town, and bring a film crew, which he did. Large silver lighting umbrellas cameras and lights followed him. So his entrance at the back there was pretty high profile. They made their way through the middle of the crowd. I could just make out a large white blur. In the song Move Me you can hear me saying “What is that?” I found out later it was him and he came down to meet us.